Blue-Brown Gray #1

This began its colored life as a camel colored Cutch pulled from a 2 hour simmering bath, then reimmersed for 15 minutes after Iron  was added  to "sadden" the bath's color.  Upon pulling the skeins from the Iron modified bath we found  that we liked the saddness that we'd come upon; the gray-brown was even and even tended toward a yellow. 

But we were following a new recipe that was to give us a black, a difficult color to get...  As insurance we held on to several sad skeins (in case the black recipe was a flop [some recipes are] for one unconfirmed reason or another) and we dipped the remaining skeins in an indigo vat as the recipe instructed us to do. We pulled the skeins out after a minute or so.  A black we didn't get, but we really liked the color we got, a Blue-Brown Gray.

This color was dyed in a limited edition of 24 skeins.

Each worsted skein weighs 2 ounces (50 grams) and it is 140 yards in length; the wool comes from our superfine Saxon Merino sheep and is hand-dyed with natural colors on the farm.  Expect 5-6.5 stitches per inch using US 5-8/3.75-5.25 mm needles.

Available from the Yarn Store.